Jennette Nielsen: Keep Your Possibility in the Pitcher

“Honey-drenched maker, sister keeper, and gentle spirit badass mother fucker,” Jennette Nielsen, creates from just about anything to make just about everything. From goddess mugs to witches salves, from bags and hats to rattles, and inks, Jennette makes to mend and turns rubbish into beauty. When Jennette was four years old her step-father began sexually abusing her. He stopped when she was ten. Jennette found refuge in creating and today makes her living from the art that keeps her breathing.

SOME THINGS WE TALK ABOUT…

• Using art to heal from long-term sexual abuse


• How having a baby freed her up to be totally honest


• How she “cobbles together an income” to make a living from making art and


• Making art without asking a single soul for permission